ABSTRACT
Cultural conflict is not so bad as long as there is a degree of freedom within the culture as a whole. In this way, the tectonic plates of oppositional opinions—scientific-based and faith-based ideals that have been examined here, for example—can move above and below one another when they come in contact, as they invariable will. There is no shortage of intolerant attitudes swimming in the culture these days, and as a result, the virtue of toleration is highly touted; but state-supported ideals of tolerations seem to work only in one direction. Thus there present a strong element of intolerance in the secular state's promotion of a necessary and essentially benign ideal of toleration, a phenomena is coming into notice in which the avatars of tolerance shut out serious criticism of the effects of state policies as they affect all segments of the general population.
